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Grommet
Grommet: a ring, usually two-piece with a washer, set into fabric to reinforce holes for ropes, hooks, or rods on tarps, banners, sails, and curtains. From French gromette; sized #00–#8; distinct from smaller one-piece eyelets.
Gu Jingzhou
Gu Jingzhou (顾景舟, 1915–1996) was a Chinese potter from Yixing, Jiangsu, regarded as one of the outstanding makers of zisha teapots of the twentieth century.
Guan ware
Guan ware (官窑), or "official ware," is the Southern Song dynasty imperial ceramic made for the court at Hangzhou, with a dark body and crackled blue-green glaze.
Guanxi (关系)
Guanxi (关系) is the Chinese system of personal relationships built on trust, affection (ganqing), obligation (renqing), and face (mianzi), used for favor exchange in business, law, and daily life, distinct from Western social capital and increasingly reshaped by digitalization.
Guayabera
Guayabera: traditional Latin American and Caribbean men's shirt, also called Mexican wedding shirt or Camisa de Yucatán, with four pockets and two pleated or embroidered rows; origins traced to Cuba, production centered in Mérida.
Guiche piercing
A guiche piercing is a male genital piercing placed through the perineum, between the scrotum and anus, popularized in the United States in the 1970s.
Guido (slang)
Guido is a North American slang term and ethnic slur for stereotypical working-class East Coast Italian-American men, derived from the Italian given name Guido; also a self-applied youth subculture label popularized by Jersey Shore.
Guinea (coin)
Guinea (coin): British gold coin first struck 1663 under Charles II, named for Guinea Coast gold, worth 20 shillings then fixed at 21 in 1717 by Newton; replaced by the sovereign after 1816.
Gunta Stölzl
Gunta Stölzl (Adelgunde Stölzl, 1897–1983), German weaver and textile designer; the only female Bauhaus master, she led the Dessau weaving workshop 1927–1931, made it the school's top earner, then ran hand-weaving businesses in Zurich.
Guro masks
Guro masks are carved wooden face and crest masks made and danced by the Guro people of central Côte d'Ivoire, with zamble, gu, and zauli the best-known trio.
Guy Fawkes mask
The Guy Fawkes mask, also known as the V for Vendetta mask or Anonymous mask, is a stylized protest mask designed by David Lloyd for the comic V for Vendetta.
Guzhuang (古装)
Guzhuang (古装), meaning "ancient costume," is the period costume worn in Chinese television dramas and films set in an imaginary past, a production idiom rather than a reconstruction of historical dress.
Gyaru (ギャル)
Gyaru (ギャル) is a Japanese youth subculture of bold fashion and makeup, named from English "girl", centered on Shibuya from the 1990s kogal era, with styles like ganguro and hime gal, now revived in Japan and South Korea.
Gyeongseong Spinning and Weaving Company
Gyeongseong Spinning and Weaving Company (Kyŏngbang) was a pioneer cotton textile company founded in Seoul in 1919 by Kim Seong-su and Korean asset-holders. It survives today as Kyungbang Co., Ltd.
Gzhel ceramics
Gzhel ceramics (гжельская керамика) is the pottery and porcelain of the Gzhel district southeast of Moscow, a Russian folk craft best known for cobalt-blue painting on white porcelain.
H&M
H&M (Hennes & Mauritz) is a Swedish multinational fashion retailer founded by Erling Persson in Västerås in 1947 as Hennes; renamed after the 1968 Mauritz Widforss acquisition, listed in 1974, now a multi-brand group competing with Zara and Shein.
H2o Surfshop
H2O Surfshop, a Portuguese surf, bodyboard, and skate gear shop founded in 2000 by Joca (Francisco Ferreira) in Marinha Grande, moved in 2021 to São Pedro de Moel beach, 17 km from Nazaré; distinct from Uruguayan and French namesakes.
Hagi ware
Hagi ware (萩焼, Hagi-yaki) is a Japanese stoneware pottery made for over 400 years in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, prized in the tea ceremony for glazes that change color with use.
Haint blue
Haint blue, also called haint blue paint or Gullah blue, is a family of pale blue-green shades used on Southern porch ceilings, rooted in Gullah Geechee tradition of repelling spirits with indigo-based paint resembling water or sky.
Hakama (袴)
Hakama (袴) are traditional Japanese pleated, skirt-like trousers worn over a kimono by men and women. Types include andon and umanori hakama; used in court dress, samurai formal wear, martial arts, weddings, and graduation ceremonies.
Hakata-ori
Hakata-ori is a thick, tightly woven silk fabric from Fukuoka City, Japan, used chiefly for kimono obi sashes and known for the striped kenjo pattern; it dates to 1241.
Halaf culture
Halaf culture: Late Neolithic archaeological culture of northern Mesopotamia, southeast Anatolia, and the Levant, c. 6100–5300 BC, named after Tell Halaf. Known for polychrome painted pottery, tholos architecture, and the earliest stamp seals; replaced by the Ubaid culture.
Haley Kalil
Haley Kalil, born Haley O'Brien and known online as Haley Baylee, is an American model and comedy influencer who co-won Sports Illustrated's 2018 Swim Search.
Half dollar (United States coin)
The U.S. half dollar, also called the fifty-cent piece, is a 50-cent coin first struck in silver in 1794 under the Coinage Act of 1792. Designs ran from Flowing Hair through Walking Liberty, Franklin, and Kennedy (1964-present); since 1971 it is copper-nickel clad, and for 2026 only the Enduring Liberty design appears.
Halloween costume
Halloween costume: disguise worn on October 31, descended from Celtic Samhain guising, mumming, and souling, brought to the U.S. by 1840s Irish and Scottish immigrants; now a $4.4 billion American retail category.
Halston
Halston (Roy Halston Frowick, 1932-1990), American fashion designer and first celebrity designer, famed for the Ultrasuede shirtdress model 704, Jackie Kennedy's pillbox hat, Studio 54 glamour, and name licensing.
Hamada Shōji
Hamada Shōji (濱田庄司) was a Japanese ceramic artist, a central figure of the mingei folk craft movement who made the pottery town of Mashiko famous.
Hammam (حمّام)
Hammam (حمّام), the public bathhouse of the Islamic world, descended from Roman thermae and central to hygiene and sociability in Middle Eastern and Ottoman cities; distinct from European spa towns in its embedded neighborhood layout.
Han (cultural)
Han (한, 恨) is a Korean cultural emotion concept of unresolved resentment, grief, and binding wounds, celebrated as uniquely Korean and traced in Goryeo songs, Joseon literature, minjung theology, and modern film.
Hanbok (한복)
Hanbok (한복) is traditional Korean dress: a jeogori jacket with chima skirt or baji trousers, plus durumagi coat. Term coined late 19th century; Three Kingdoms origins; Hanbok Day October 21.